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    Importance of Counseling and Re-Counseling in HIV Testing:: The Main Goal Is To

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    Counseling is an important part of HIV testing to help clients make informed decisions and cope with their condition. It occurs before and after HIV testing at various healthcare facilities. The goals of counseling are to provide psychological support to those infected, prevent HIV transmission, and ensure clients have knowledge for decision making. Counseling helps clients cope with emotional strains, assess risks, prevent transmission through safer practices, and make informed choices about testing, relationships, work, and more. Those eligible include people concerned about their status, those with HIV in their families, people experiencing difficulties due to HIV, and those at risk or donating blood/organs.

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    Counseling is an important part of HIV testing to help clients make informed decisions and cope with their condition. It occurs before and after HIV testing at various healthcare facilities. The goals of counseling are to provide psychological support to those infected, prevent HIV transmission, and ensure clients have knowledge for decision making. Counseling helps clients cope with emotional strains, assess risks, prevent transmission through safer practices, and make informed choices about testing, relationships, work, and more. Those eligible include people concerned about their status, those with HIV in their families, people experiencing difficulties due to HIV, and those at risk or donating blood/organs.

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    Counseling is an important part of HIV testing to help clients make informed decisions and cope with their condition. It occurs before and after HIV testing at various healthcare facilities. The goals of counseling are to provide psychological support to those infected, prevent HIV transmission, and ensure clients have knowledge for decision making. Counseling helps clients cope with emotional strains, assess risks, prevent transmission through safer practices, and make informed choices about testing, relationships, work, and more. Those eligible include people concerned about their status, those with HIV in their families, people experiencing difficulties due to HIV, and those at risk or donating blood/organs.

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    Importance of Counseling and Re-counseling in HIV testing:

    HIV/AIDS counselling is a process that begins with the client's first contact either with an
    HIV/AIDS counselling service or with the care system for HIV-related needs and these include
    governmental and npn-governmental health and social service facilities. These include:
    o Community health centers
    o rural health clinics
    o basic health units, hospitals
    o STD clinics
    o Mother and child health clinics
    o Reproductive health clinics
    o blood donation sites
    o antenatal and post- partum clinics
    o schools,
    o Mosques, Churches and Temples
    o outpatient clinics
    o And all health outreach and community based programs.

    The main goal is to:


    o Provide psychological support to individuals infected with HIV
    o To prevent HIV and its transmission

    The major elements of HIV Counseling for HIV/AIDS:


    o The establishment of sensitive, trusting and respectful relationships
    o A structured approach to ensure the client has adequate knowledge for problem-solving
    and decision making in pre and post-test counselling.
    Overall importance/purpose of counseling is:
    o To assist people to make informed decisions, cope better with their condition, lead more
    positive lives, acquire knowledge pertaining to testing and prevent HIV transmission or
    control of infection through means like protected or safer sex, and changes to drug
    injecting practices
    o To help the infected individual and their family and friends cope with the possible
    emotional strains (grief, anger, fear, rejection, discrimination) and all other social and
    physiological problems that are likely to be experienced
    o To assess the risk of HIV infection in potential blood and organ donors.

    Persons eligible for Counseling are:


    o People who are worried about their
    o HIV status, and request testing for
    o HIV (pre-test, and post test
    o counselling);
    o Those having HIV/AIDS in their families
    o People experiencing difficulties with issues such as stigma, isolation, financial hardships,
    as a result of HIV infection;
    o Those seeking help because of past or current risk behaviors
    o Those wishing to donate blood or body organs
    HIV pre-test counselling checklist:
    o Emphasize confidentiality
    o Explore reasons for testing
    o Explore risk history:
    1. Unsafe sex – self and of partner
    2. Injecting drug use – self and of partner
    3. Blood/blood products/transplants received
    4. Possibly non-sterile procedures like tattooing, injections, scarification, and
    circumcision
    o Explore the significance of the “Window period” and the time elapsed since last risk
    exposure
    o Explore and clarify HIV/AIDS knowledge
    o Explore HIV test understanding and implications:
    1. Marriage
    2. Pregnancy
    3. Relationships (eg. Does the partner know about the testing?)
    4. Work
    5. Stigma
    6. Finance
    7. Emotional coping
    8. Social support available
    o Explore and clarify knowledge about the test and testing procedures
    o Discuss who should know the result if positive, and how they might be told
    o Assess strategies for coping in the shorter and longer term
    o Previous experience in managing health and other personal crises
    o Discuss future prevention like safe sex and condom use, clean needle use and options for
    managing risk situations
    o Discuss the value of testing

    References:
    1. Dr.Saeed A. Counseling for HIV/AIDS. The National Guidelines, August 2001.Retrieved
    March 11, 2018 at 10:30 am from:
    http://www.nacp.gov.pk/library/reports/Advocacy%20&
    %20Communication/COUNSELING%20FOR%20HIV-AIDS%20-The%20National
    %20Guidelines.pdf

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